WHAT CHILDREN ARE TAUGHT – AT 9:52 A.M. ET:  The United States Embassy in Jerusalem opens today.  President Trump, unlike his predecessors, actually kept his promise and moved our embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, not only keeping a campaign pledge, but recognizing reality.  Of course Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, and has been its capital for thousands of years.

Most of the Europeans, of course, are appalled, even though they've been meeting Israeli officials in Jerusalem for decades.  The hypocrisy flows.

But it is a tragic day as well.  Although most of the Arab world appears reasonably quiet, that is not the case with the fanatical followers of the terror group Hamas, who are storming the Israeli border with firebombs and weapons.  At this writing Hamas is claiming that almost 40 have been killed.  Photographs clearly show youngsters being sent into the fight.  You have to ask what kind of movement sends young kids into a battle.  You have to ask what those kids are taught in school.

From Fox: 

At least three of the 37 Palestinians reportedly killed Monday in clashes ahead of the Jerusalem opening of the U.S. Embassy to Israel were “armed terrorists” caught trying to plant a bomb near the border fence in Gaza, Israel's military said.

Israel says more than 35,000 protesters have amassed at a dozen locations along the security fence, and the death toll in Monday’s confrontation is the highest in Gaza since a cross-border standoff between the militant group Hamas and the Jewish state began in 2014, according to the Associated Press.

“Moments ago, an IDF patrol foiled a bomb-laying attack by a cell of three armed terrorists near Rafah, close to the border,” the Israeli military said Monday. “This is a particularly violent protest point. The troops responded with fire at the terrorists. The terrorists were killed.”
Israel also said its aircraft targeted a Hamas post in Jabaliya after troops in the area came under fire. None of the Israeli soldiers were hurt.

“Rioters are hurling pipe bombs and firebombs at IDF troops, burning tires, throwing stones and burning objects, with the intention of setting fires in Israel and hurting IDF troops,” the army was quoted by The Times of Israel as saying.

A senior figure in Gaza's ruling Hamas group said Monday that the border protests will continue until Palestinians have achieved their rights.

COMMENT:  Of course, the Western left is already out with its fake anguish about the plight of the Palestinians (although the deaths of 450,000 Syrians don't interest them at all).  But it's possible that the TV pictures of fanatics charging the border with firebombs will force some people to recognize that the Palestinian "cause" has fallen into terrible hands.

May 14,  2018